1999 with the cinema
Events
- the shutter of Star Wars : the phantom threat beats the record which held Jurassic Park de Steven Spielberg
Principal exits into the room in France
- Astérix of Claude Zidi with Christian Clavier, Gerard Depardieu, Laetitia Casta
- Matrix : film of Science Fiction of Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski with Keanu Reeves
Festivals
Cannes
- '' Rosetta '' of Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne receives the Palme of gold.
Other festivals
- X: 5th Week of the British cinema of Abbeville: X
- X: Sundance Film Festival: X
- X: 5th Fantastic' Arts of Gerardmer: X
- X: 49e International festival of film of Berlin: X
- X: 1st Festival of Asian film of Deauville: X
- X: 19th International film festival of women of Creteil: X
- X: 26e Festival of film of Paris: X
- X: 17th Festival of police Cognac film: X
- X: 23e International festival of cartoon film of Annecy: X
- X: 56e Mostra of Venice:
- Lion of gold for Pas one of less of the Chinese realizer Zhang Yimou
- Grand Prix of the jury for the wind will carry it of the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami
- X: 25e Festival of the American cinema of Deauville: X
- X: 16th Panafrican Festival of the cinema and the television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco).
Rewards
Oscars
- American Beauty of Sam Mendes gains the Oscar of best film.
- the life is beautiful of Roberto Benigni receives the Oscars of best foreign film and the best actor.
Césars
- Better film: Life dreamed of the angels of Erick Zonca
- Better realizer: Patrice Chéreau for Those which like to me will take the train
- Meilleur actor: Jacques Villeret in the dinner of idiots
- Better actress: Elodie Stop in the Life dreamed of the angels
- male Best supporting role: Daniel Prévost in the dinner of idiots
- female Best supporting role: Dominique Blanc in Those which like to me will take the train
- Meilleur foreign film: the life is beautiful (the vita E bleated) of Roberto Benigni
Italy
Price David di Donatello
- Better film: Fuori dal mondo of Giuseppe Piccioni
Ribbon of money
- Better film: leggenda LED pianista sull' Oceano of Giuseppe Tornatore
Price Jutra
- Better Québécois film : the red Violin (The Red Violin) of François Girard
- Better realizer : François Girard for the red Violin
- Better actress : Pascale Montpetit in the Heart with the fist
- Better actor : Alexis Martin in One August 32 on ground
Other rewards
- Price Louis-Delluc: Good-bye, dry land! of Otar Iosseliani
- Grand Prix (Standard of Yennenga) with the Panafrican Festival of the cinema and the television of Ouagadougou: Identity papers of Mwezé Ngangura (Democratic republic of Congo)
Boxoffice
France
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detailed Article: Boxoffice France 1999
the United States
- Star Wars: episode I - The phantom Threat
- Sixth Direction ( The Sixth Judicious )
- Toy Story 2
- Austin Powers: The Spy who drew me
- Matrix
- Tarzan
- Big Daddy
- the Mummy
- Just married (or almost)
- the Project Blair Witch
Births
Principal deaths
First quarter
- February 20th: Gene Siskel, film critic
- March 7th: Stanley Kubrick, realizer (° July 26th, 1928)
- March 13rd: Garson Kanin, realizer
Second quarters
- April 14th: Ellen Corby, actress
- April 21st: Buddy Rogers, actor
- April 28th: Rory Calhoun, actor
- May 2nd: Oliver Reed, actor
- May 8th: Dirk Bogarde, 79 years, actor and scenario writer
- June 11th: DeForest Kelley, actor (Star Trek)
- June 29th: Allan Carr, producer
Third quarters
- July 1st: Sylvia Sidney, 88 years, actress
- July 1st: Edward Dmytryk, realizer
- July 2nd: Mario Puzo, scenario writer
- August 4th: Victor Mature, 86 years, actor
- September 9th: Romance Ruth, actress
- September 22nd: George C. Scott, actor
Fourth quarters
- December 3rd: Madeline Kahn, actress
- December 17th: Rex Allen, actor and singer
- December 19th: Desmond Llewelyn, actor, “Q” in films of James Bond
- December 23rd: Laws Hamilton, actress
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